Easter Cake

This is my Easter Cake.

Dancing, Cakes, and Other Projects

Just a quick update. I am loving my dance classes. I get really sweaty, and yet do not ever have the urge to destroy the instructor. With most aerobics classes, I end up staring at the instructor with a look of intent to cause harm and wishind for Superman-like beams to shoot out of my eyes and drop the instructor so that we do not have to go on. LOL Seriously, though, I am actually having fun while working out.

I am makeing a cake this weekend for Easter. The plan is for it to look like a big, colorful Easter basket complete with handle and chocolate bunny. This is my most ambititous cake yet, but I was inspired by cakes from the likes of Colette Peters. Not that mine will be nearly as spectacular, but I do admire her work.

I was flipping through channels this weekend and on TBS Dinner & a Movie was on and they gave tips about what to do with leftover fresh herbs. This is always a dilemma for me as I do love to buy fresh herbs, but always feel I waste a lot of them. So, this weekend I made a crockpot chicken, apples, onion thing with rosemary and had a ton leftover and followed the directions of Dinner & a Movie and chopped up the rosemary and put it in ice cube trays with water to use later in soups, or other dishes that could melt the ice. Isn't that a super idea? I think so.

Some recommendations on the recipe though, I made it wth both boneless chicken breasts and with drumsticks. the drumsticks were so sweet and delicious, but the breasts were really bland. Also, the apples and onions became a big mushy mess. Perhaps I will use less liquid next time. I need a way to harness these flavors without the grey mush that resluts. Suggestions?

Hostess Sushi

Here is the promised pic of my Hostess Sushi. I took the ide from www.NotMartha.org, so check out her website if you want details on it.

Never Give a Clutz a 4-Wheeler

And here is what happened after I rode my new four wheeler. I it a runt funny and it tipped over on me. This is my thigh. Yummy, huh?

Mt. Pilot, NC

You know on the Andy Girffin Show when they talk about Mt. Pilot, which was supossed to be the next big town over? There really is a Mt. Pilot, NC! It is the highest point in NC. D and I passed it on our road trip to pick up my four wheeler (purchased on E-Bay). Here are pics of Mt. Pilot. We drove to the top of it and the view was nice.

Fisheys 3

The first pic here uis a shark ray that they call "Sweet Pea". Appparently, there are very few in captivity. Also they had a lorikeet garden. I love the lorikeets. The one by D's head stole the whole cup of nectar from us and poured it out. It was cute.

Fisheys 2

These are pics from a road trip in February to see the Newport Aquarium. Note my comments and helpful hints in the fist post called Fisheys. There were lost of tunnels to walk through and the fish swam overhead. Also there were divers in the tanks. The pic above with the diver in it also shows a pufferfish in the foreground...that was one big fish.

Party Report and Dancing

Hostess Sushi was not that tastey but cute...as noted by Not Martha. I also made a craft she suggested on her site. It was this little set of magnets that was so easy and cute.

At the gathering I gave reading assingments to Shan and Laurie. I will have mini book chats with each. I am listening to Bridget Jone's Diary on CD during the commute with step-mom every morning. Have read both books and have noted that when I read them/listen to them on CD I write in manner of Bridget Jones. Anyhow, they are hilarious and quite good to listen to.

I have a zillion and one pics to post and will do so this weekend.

At work they are offering line dancing twice weekly during the lunch hour. We had a free demo class today and it was so fun. I got really sweaty though and am feeling less than sure this afternoon as a result. Nonethelss, I plan to continue. On future dance days, however, I really need to pack a t-shirt and deodorant. Also I should note this is not hokey country line dancing but hip-hop R&B style line dancing. Thus it is cool.